edonkey2000 came first with a slogan like feel the power of 2000 electronic donkeys (not too sure on the reason jed chose a donkey ill ask him next time) but most likely for the reasons suggested above.

As for emule its becaused it was based on edonkey so they wanted a name associated to edonkey but a variant and as a mule is similar to a donkey they chose emule.

auto7890 wrote:well, its because they are both slow. It takes bitcomet and bitTornado less than halve the time to download the same file.

True, but nobody is disputing that the network is slow. It may be slow, but it gets the job done and it has very rare files you cannot find anywhere else on the web.

That is why a lot of people don't mind the wait. But if you are REALLY in a hurry, use newsgroups...they max out your connection from the time you start until the time you finish your download of a file.